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Business Briefs 

Acquisitions, expansions 

Lexington Precision merged its two rubber fabricating 

units, Stalwart Rubber and Elastomeric Products, and 

formed Lexington Components (LCI), as a wholly owned 

subsidiary. An LCI sales and technical service office will 

be opened in Detroit, MI and a 52,000 sq. ft manufacturing 

facility in Warren, OH, will open in June. LCI will invest 

more than $3.7 million in this facility in 1990. The company will also consolidate the manufacture of silicone and organic rubber insulators at its Jasper, GA plant. More than 

$1 million will be spent to expand and modernize the plant. 

Construction will soon begin on a 3,200 square foot testing 

laboratory and quality control center. As a result of the consolidation at Jasper, production of LCI's Burton, OH plant 

has been cut back and will close by June 1. 

BASF will spend $17 million to build a plant to produce 

Elastollan polyurethane elastomer resins at Wyandotte, MI. 

BASF will furnish the key raw materials necessary for production from its own facilities. The Wyandotte plant will 

make both polyester- and polyether-based polyurethane 

elastomer resins for injection molding, blow molding and 

extrusion. 

Mexico's Novum Group acquired a majority equity position in Hules Mexicanos, SA. (Humex), increasing NoShouldn't your 

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CLIMAX MOLYBDENUM COMPANY 

P.O. Box 1700 

Greenwich, CT 06836 

Tel.: (203) 629-6525 

50/52 Great Eastern Street 

London EC2A 3ER England 

Tel: 01-739-6422 

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8301 East Florence. Suite 314 . 

Downey. CA 90240 

Tel.: (213) 861-7144 

Fuji Building. Room 311 

2-3 Marunouchi 3*tnome, Chiyoda-ku 

Tokyo 100, Japan • Tel.: 81-3-201-2911 

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65,000 to 161,000 metric tons per year, and various synthetic rubbers by 197%, from 80,000 to 155,000 metric tons 

annually. 

Minnesota Rubber opened operations of a 30,000 

square foot manufacturing plant in Singapore. The company will spend $5 million over five years to develop the factory in Tuas into a world class manufacturing facility, specializing in custom molded rubber components. .Currently 

the plant employs 30. Some of the workers'are being 

trained at Minnesota Rubber's Minneapolis, MN plant. 

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1989 RMA rubber report 

(figures in metric tons) 

Total new rubber 

New rubber available 

Imports 

Exports 

Apparent consumption 

Total natural rubber 

Imports 

Exports 

Apparent consumption 

Total synthetic rubber 

Production 

Imports T\ 

Exports 

Apparent consumption 

Total SBR J j 

Production / 

Imports 

Exports 

Apparent consumption 

Total nitrile 

Production 

Imports 

Exports 

Apparent consumption 

Polybutadiene 

Production 

Imports 

Exports 

Apparent consumption 

'Ethylene-propylene 

Production 

Imports 

Exports 

Apparent consumption 

Butyl, polychloroprene, 

polyisoprene, silicone 

and other synthetic elastomers 

Production 

Imports 

Exports 

Apparent consumption 

1989 

3.534,917 

1,234,097 

498,116 

3,005,611 

909,415 

30.468 

889,514 

2,301,820 

324,682 

•\ 467,648 

1 2,116,106 

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873.760 

109,006 m 

175,723'/ 

793,081 

69,236 

15,776 

18,237 

65.645 

411,485 

65.457 

82,267 

374,793 

259,576 

32,367 

55.875 

228.855 

687.762 

102,076 

135.546 

653.729 

1988 %chg. 

3,436,340 

1.107.617 

570.214 

2,875.129 

853,862 

54.924 

858.277 

2,334,722 

247.755 

515,290 

2.016,849 

909,487 

91,456 . 

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778,059 

76,294 

16,579 

15,065 

63.676 

407,178 

75,239 

66,993 

406,050 

263,089 

15.307 

47,908 

229,820 

678,674 

49.174 

196.227 

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